End of Integration Foundation (IF)
Assessment
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Final Student Assessment
Formal online final evaluations will be completed at the end of MF1, MF 3 and IF. Receipt of Provisional Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory ratings will result in a performance review by the Academic Progress Committee, as outlined in the MD Program’s Policy and Procedure for the Evaluation of Undergraduate Medical Students. The summary box from the final summative IF evaluation will appear in the student’s transcript.
Curriculum Block
Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 12
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Objectives
General Objectives
- Appraise, incorporate principles of resource stewardship to, and apply acquired knowledge into medical decision-making.
- Apply principles of evidence-based and evidence-informed medicine in medical decision-making.
- Employ and critically evaluate ethical theories and principles when exploring learning scenarios and reasoning about ethical challenges in the clinical setting.
- Summarize the ethical, legal obligations and duty of care that physicians have for patients, colleagues and, communities, and the tensions that may arise from these responsibilities.
- Judge when additional expertise is needed in the resolution of ethical choices and where to find appropriate resources (help, laws, policies, etc.) to obtain this help.
- Identify ethical issues and dilemmas in their own clinical experiences related to patient care, institutional practices and health policies.
- Integrate moral reasoning and judgment with communication, interpersonal, and clinical skills to provide the patients with effective and ethical care.
- Contrast organizational structures applied within institutions and agencies accountable for the delivery of health care.
- Identify and address problems/issues that might affect one’s own health, well-being, or professional capabilities.
- Illustrate strategies to cope adaptively with stresses likely to occur during medical training and practice.
- Demonstrate how to develop with patients, families, and other professionals a common understanding on issues and a shared plan of care, as defined by the Kalamazoo Consensus Statements. (CanMEDS 2015).
- Illustrate how diverse factors (sociocultural, psychological, economic, occupational, environmental, legal, political, spiritual, and technological) interact to influence the health of an individual and the population.
- Plan and advocate for an appropriate course of action at both the individual- and population-level that responds to the diverse factors influencing their health.
- Describe the professional responsibility of the physician as Health Advocate in advancing the health and well-being of individuals, communities and populations.
Activities
PC Session
- Serious Illness Conversations
- Health Inequities: Early Childhood Development
- Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care
- Global Health
- Boundaries
- Being Human in Medicine
- Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
- Self Care: Striving and Thriving, Not Merely Surviving
- Patient Safety
- Brain Death and Organ Donation
- Medical/Legal Issues
- Grief
- Hidden Curriculum
- Developmental Disabilities
- Caring for an Aging Population
- Medical Colonialism and Access to Healthcare for Indigenous People
- HEART
- Trauma Informed Care
- Spiritual Caregiving
- Gender in Medicine
- Moral Reasoning and Ethical Decision-Making Integration
- Addictions
- Physician Humanity Panel #3 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Career Selection
- From White Coat to Blue Gown
Tags
Curriculum Block
Part 5
Professional Competencies IF
Week 12
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 12
McMaster Program Competencies
5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession
5.10 Manage conflicts of interest and dual relationships.
5.11 Demonstrate trustworthiness and reliability that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients
5.12 Present oneself professionally to patients, families, and members of the health care team
5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
5.3 Demonstrate altruism, appropriately balancing patient needs and self-interest/self-care
5.4 Demonstrate respect for patient confidentiality, privacy and autonomy
5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law.
5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized.
5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations
5.8 Balance personal values and beliefs with professional and societal ethics
5.9 Maintain appropriate boundaries with patients and other professionals
7.5 Work with physicians and other colleagues in the health care professions to promote understanding, manage differences, and resolve conflicts
7.6 Participate in different team roles and appropriately apply leadership skills to establish, develop, and continuously enhance team function.
8.1 Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress
8.2 Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one’s behaviour
8.3 Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitation to seek help appropriately
8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view
8.5 Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty